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ReactOS UI Team - Concept, Plan, and: help wanted
by Aleksey Bragin 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Hi, our UI Team Coordinator - mf - asked me to sent this email on his behalf, because unfortunately mails from his address doesn't reach any mailing-list. Here is the original message: From: mf <mf(a)mufunyo.net> Date: October 6, 2005 1:20:56 AM GMT+04:00 Subject: ReactOS UI Team - Concept, Plan, and: help wanted Greetings ReactOS developers and interested parties! For the unintroduced, I am your humble UI coordinator. In addition, I also made some graphics for the project. -Concept- I am here to remind you of a post that was made in the ReactOS user forum, written by crappish (Mikko Tikkanen). In it the author wrote of the need of a consistent user interface, the need of people that actually have knowledge of such things, and how these people would have to be in charge of enforcing such an interface. They should be familiar with Windows, know how to make things accessible and newbie- friendly, and have enough creativity to improve on existing concepts. In addition to that, there should be someone who represents this team and can interface it with the rest of the project, and make sure everything is the way everyone wants it to be. Now, this representative has been chosen. But there is no team to back him up! -Recruiting- So getting down to business. The UI team is recruiting two kinds of people. Primarily: Programmers who have sufficient knowledge to hack other people's code, even if said code is rooted deeply in system libraries. Skill in writing user interfaces and piecing together dialog resources. No advanced skills beyond that required. This is most important, since developers in this category can get straight to business and get started on improving ReactOS. Secondarily: Interface concept designers who have advanced knowledge of human interfacing, easy access, logical positioning, and the creativity to improve and expand on existing ideas. This is a secondary category because a) right now there is little to do in this respect, b) there are already two (counting Mikko?) of these people in ReactOS, and c) for every 1 concept designer, there can be up to 10 implementing developers. Even more appreciated, would be someone who fits both gloves and can write code AND design interfaces. Sadly, experience proves that these two traits don't usually come together in one person. And! Just as important, though not actively recruited, I welcome icon designers, graphic designers, font designers (that includes you, wierd_w!), sound effect samplers, and programmers willing to implement missing UI features (think of things such as extended cursor/icon support, alpha blitting, runtime freetype configuration, recycle bin functionality, control panel, autorun support, etc), on individual application (mail me at mf(a)mufunyo.net). -Plan- The plan(tm) to kickstart the UI team is as follows: Our first goal will be to make the surface experience of ReactOS familiar. Surface in this context means the things a user will see during and after bootup. This mainly involves modifying explorer; to display a consistent and familiar start menu, and to show a friendly explorer when My Computer or the Explore link is opened. This means making all the surface icons consistent (my task), modifying explorer's interface (the 'programmer' category), and figuring out the best layout for the start menu (the 'designer' category). There is no plan past this first task, because I cannot predict how small or big the team is going to be, what feedback we are going to get, and how fast things will move. And that's it for my first big announcement. I hope this will get some discussion going, and some balls rolling. I would also like to take this opportunity to request a mailing list for the UI team, this should have been set up right after the coordinator vote was over, but it wasn't-- so to whoever's in charge of that, I count on you. Thanks. Please reply to this mail only on the general list or to me in person (if you're not on the list and only get digests), it is only crossposted in ros-dev to get a wider range of attention. Thanks for reading, mf.

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Kudus on the new reactos.com
by Jason Filby 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

Hi all Better late than never: I'd like to thank the web team for a great job on the new ReactOS site! Especially to Klemens Friedl, Ge van Geldorp and Michael Wirth for the efforts that they put in, this was a big task and they did it well. The site is easy to navigate, looks great and should see us well into the future as we continue to expand content and our user base grows. Well done! Regards Jason

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MTools for WIN32
by Martin Fuchs 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hello, today I tried to setup a QEMU boot environment for ReactOS. I had a few problems to create the image and configuret the partition on Windows. However I could solve the problem using Linux, like this: # create an empty 60 MB large disk image dd if=/dev/zero of=/windows/c/reactos-emu/c.img count=121968 # initialize the MBR and partition using a DOS bot disk qemu -fda dos5.img -hda c.img -boot a # at the DOC command prompt: > fdisk # back in Linux mformat c: # boot ReactOS CDROM iso image in QEMU qemu.exe -L . -hda c.img -cdrom reactos-0.3svn.iso -boot d # Update the binaries from a fresh compiled ReactOS tree on Windows binst.bat Is there a better way, and is it possible without using Linux? I also had to notice, my MTools on Windows are quite out of date. (from 27.1.2001) After a few boot cycles they have problems to read the image, and report: Cannot initialize 'C:' The Linux version works quite well on the same disk image. Do you know of a newer WIN32 version of MTools - where can I download them? I think this download link should also be put into the Wiki: http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_ReactOS#Using_MTools Thanks, Martin

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Forum problem
by Hartmut Birr 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Hi, if I try to enter the forum, I get the following error message: phpBB : *Critical Error* Error creating new session *_DEBUG MODE_* SQL Error : 1062 Duplicate entry 'luljammtmkqianxjzaxegovwqjcqhyav' for key 1 INSERT INTO phpbb_sessions (session_id, session_user_id, session_start, session_time, session_ip, session_page, session_logged_in, session_admin) VALUES ('luljammtmkqianxjzaxegovwqjcqhyav', 462, 1128451014, 1128451014, '54a19b66', 0, 1, 0) Line : 209 File : sessions.php - Hartmut

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it's way too easy to make a mistake in the "Code Validator"
by user user 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

It's way too easy to make a mistake in the "Code Validator". More that have of the time, I make a mistake, and then, and guess what? I lose that username, and the email, and then I have to register again with another username and an email address! ______________________________________________________ Yahoo! for Good Donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/

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software purchase for web forums
by Steven Edwards 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Hello, The web teams has requested that we purchase a software package to handle our forum discussion on the website. The purchase cost is $160 http://www.vbulletin.com/ We have about $90 in paypal donated for misc needs and this seems like a good buy if we really need it. After our hack of the website this may be a good thing. I would like to have a vote up or down about the purchase. If the majority of the project supports this then once we reach the required amount we will purchase. Please reply to me in private, the foundation or general lists only. Do not follow this thread on ros-dev. Thanks Steven __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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Fwd: Re: software purchase for web forums
by Steven Edwards 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

--- Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:32:50 -0700 > From: Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer(a)gmail.com> > To: steven_ed4153(a)yahoo.com > Subject: Re: software purchase for web forums > > If you would, please forward this to ros-general since I don't find it > compelling to subscribe only for this topic. > > I do not think that it would be appropriate for a free software > project to use a proprietary Web forum. Instead, it should be in the > best interest of the community to use a free software solution, such > as PunBB or phpBB. > > What kind of message would we leave on the users if ReactOS, a free > software project, uses a proprietary Web forum on the site? The said > proprietary software currently is vBulletin, but this will hold true > if you were to purchase Invision or some other proprietary "solution" > > On 9/29/05, Steven Edwards <steven_ed4153(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > The web teams has requested that we purchase a software package to handle our forum discussion > on > > the website. The purchase cost is $160 > > > > http://www.vbulletin.com/ > > > > We have about $90 in paypal donated for misc needs and this seems like a good buy if we really > > need it. After our hack of the website this may be a good thing. I would like to have a vote > up or > > down about the purchase. If the majority of the project supports this then once we reach the > > required amount we will purchase. > > > > Please reply to me in private, the foundation or general lists only. Do not follow this thread > on > > ros-dev. > > > > Thanks > > Steven > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Ros-dev mailing list > > Ros-dev(a)reactos.com > > http://reactos.com:8080/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > > > > -- > Mike > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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New website
by Ge van Geldorp 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Thursday afternoon (UTC) the website will be unavailable for some time. We're going to make the switch to the new website design then. At the same time, we're moving to www.reactos.org as the primary name for the website, with www.reactos.com being an alias (you'll be redirected automatically to www.reactos.org if you use the old name). The mailing lists are also going to be moved from reactos.com to reactos.org, so if you have filtering in place please take this into account. Many thanks to Michael Wirth and especially Klemens Friedl who put a lot of effort in the new site. Gé van Geldorp.

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RE: [ros-dev] software purchase for web forums
by Murphy, Ged (Bolton) 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

I highly agree with this move. I used to administer some vbulletin forums, and I can't speak highly enough about them. Viewing pleasure, secure and feature packed. Great tool+++ Ged. -----Original Message----- From: Steven Edwards [mailto:steven_ed4153@yahoo.com] Sent: 29 September 2005 16:34 To: ros-dev(a)reactos.com; ros-general(a)reactos.com; ros-foundation(a)reactos.com Subject: [ros-dev] software purchase for web forums Hello, The web teams has requested that we purchase a software package to handle our forum discussion on the website. The purchase cost is $160 http://www.vbulletin.com/ We have about $90 in paypal donated for misc needs and this seems like a good buy if we really need it. After our hack of the website this may be a good thing. I would like to have a vote up or down about the purchase. If the majority of the project supports this then once we reach the required amount we will purchase. Please reply to me in private, the foundation or general lists only. Do not follow this thread on ros-dev. Thanks Steven __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev(a)reactos.com http://reactos.com:8080/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev ************************************************************************ The information contained in this message or any of its attachments is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. The views expressed may not be company policy, but the personal views of the originator. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact postmaster(a)exideuk.co.uk <mailto:postmaster@exideuk.co.uk> and then delete this message. Exide Technologies is an industrial and transportation battery producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries. Further information can be found at www.exide.com

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Networking problem
by Jacques Mony 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Hi, I have trouble with ReactOS networking. Here is what I've tried so far: First, I have made most of the tests under qemu 0.7.2 running on Windows 2000 (I have the same results on Linux and Windows XP... using same version of qemu). I use the option "-user-net". In ReactOS, I configured my network as follow: Gateway: 10.0.2.2 IP Address: 10.0.2.15 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 I did also give a value to the nameserver, but it doesn't matter for the problem I have. - I can ping 10.0.2.2 from ReactOS (I assume this tells me the userland tcp/ip stack of qemu works properly, as well as ReactOS settings). On the host, I have a webserver (IIS) and an FTP server running, as well as SSH. >From ReactOS: - If I type "telnet 10.0.2.2 80 " and then enter some HTTP request (GET / HTTP/1.0), I will only get an amount (1 to many) of blank lines. In other words: no content. - If I type "ftp 10.0.2.2 ", the ftp client seems to send a username by itself ("6-w" !?). So my FTP tests stop here. - If I type "telnet 10.0.2.2 22", I will get the SSH version message, and when I type something, I get a "protocol mismatch" error, which looks normal. - If I type "wget 10.0.2.2", it seems to connect (the webserver gets the query), but then it will say it received empty data and will loop doing this forever. - I also tried lynx. Lynx gave me the most interesting results. I was able to connect to the server, ask me for a cookie, receive some headers and finally, since my password wasn't good, it gave me the IIS permission denied page. HOWEVER, there were a lot of error messages during the process. Here is the one that appeared the most often: "Alert!: Unexpected read error" There were also a lot of "Alert!: Invalid header "...."" What I seem to understand is that some data is lost from the packets. Something like final characters. I never had this kind of trouble with other OS running under qemu, so I guess the problem is in ReactOS TCP/IP stack. But I also seem to be the only one to have this kind of problem. Any idea where I should look first? I'm pretty new to ReactOS and windows programming, but I'll do what I can to provide more detail or... fix this. Thanks. -- Jacques Mony Programmeur-Analyste Les services conseils Systématix inc.

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